The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 129
His heart throbbed with joy immeasurable, and his fingers began to play on the strings of his kantele.
Who acts: heart · What happens: throb, begin, play · To what, where: heart, strings
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 3 | throbbed | throb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 heart | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throbbed | obl |
| 6 | immeasurable | immeasurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 joy | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 play | mark |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 strings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 strings | det |
| 16 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 play | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kantele | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kantele | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strings | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throb | participle | land's heart not said here | with joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | land's heart | land's fingers nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | land's heart not said here | the strings of land's kantele | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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